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Historical person
1814–1886
Samuel J. Tilden was the Democratic candidate who won the popular vote in the disputed United States presidential election of 1876. Conflicting electoral returns left the result to a commission and political negotiation, which awarded the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes.
In Gore Vidal’s 1876, Written as Charles’s journal, the novel builds towards the disputed presidential election between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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